Toyota To Build $1B Artificial Intelligence Research Center In California

Toyota To Build B Artificial Intelligence Research Center In California

Vittorio Hernandez | Nov 06, 2015 03:49 AM EST DARPA Robotics Challenge Showcases Cutting Edge In Artificial Intelligence (Photo : Getty Images) Japanese car manufacturing giant Toyota has set aside $1 billion to build an artificial intelligence research center in California in the next five years. Like Us on Facebook Toyota will register it as a new company named Toyota Research Institute. The first AI lab would be built next to Stanford University and the next near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, reports the New York Times. To oversee the facility, anticipated to be one of the largest research labs in Silicon Valley, is Gill Pratt, a roboticist, Toyota announced on Friday at a news conference in Tokyo. Pratt is the former program manager of the Defense Sciences…